Ride On Preserved Leyland Leopard TSJ 64S - Glasgow Oct 2017
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- Take a ride on a preserved Leyland Leopard, registration TSJ 64S from the Bridgeton Bus Garage of the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust (GVVT) to the main Buchanan Bus Station. This footage was shot at the GVVT Open Day in October 2017.
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Thanks. I used these to travel to Bell College in Hamilton around 25 years ago.
I remember the noise of the engine and the interior trim rattling too, and was fascinated by the stubby wee gear lever.
They seemed to gradually be replaced by the Leyland National on that route, whose only feature I remember was the rear roof pod.
Leyland Leopard buses and Class 303 (Blue Trains) - the noisy, characterful transport of my youth.
Thanks for sharing that Scott. They certainly do have a distinctive sounds don't they :)
the leyland leapord was the backbone of scottish passenger transport for many years, and there were still many in service right up until the very late ninetes, either with first bus or private operators such as Hutchinsons or Whitelaws. I have fond memories of them, wether it was a fully manual Y body with no power steering and the driver wrestling us upto the Hamilton cross on the 62 , or roaring up the Motorway to Ayr on day excursions, or upto glasgow on the 64. I never liked the angular bodies or slightly dull sound of the tigers brought into replace them. I mind too network KCB brought a lot of them out of retirement in 1996 to serve alongside the volvo B10Ms. Came back from meeting my future wife on a semi automatic leapord with updated tail light clusters on the 201.
Watching one the best preserved examples here, the transmission in that lovely machine almost sounds like an excited child running happily alongside the engine. No computers anywhere to be seen, the destination board is a vynil roll, the seats are about as comfy as sitting on bricks, the steering wheels were made for mister tickle, but I bet the drivers still adored them. Just push the pedal, aim the wheels and it go. :)
I love your description of the transmission :)
Oh bringing back the memories of these back in the 90s most uncomfortable seats ever but flying machine 😂
Lovely condition of the vehicle. I can remember riding on those type of buses years ago.
The engine sounds as if it's been well looked after as well.
Yeah she's beautiful isn't she :)
Both riding on and driving, this brings back many memories!
Wonderful :)
Nice to see a young driver who knows how to change Gears in a Leopard Properly most drivers nowadays just thrash through the gears like idiots.
Maybe that young driver watched this National Bus Training Video where it says you should leave 2 seconds for gear changes czcams.com/video/8u4-hPTX_u8/video.html
Ahh that squeal!!! God bless the old leopards!!! Absolute flying machines. It was a shame they had to go
Yup :)
I can remember as a 12 year old back in 1980 catching a Western SMT from Carlisle to Gretna, I think we went via Longtown , coming from the South west of England it was a new type of bus to travel on
I mind seeing the bus as my mum and i are spotted at 1.15 secs my mum recently passed on the 24th of July 22 away and i often took her to events and around the museum and often bored her to tears when spotting the buses out and about when there was open days and such events on in the city ...i think secretly she loved seeing the old buses too...i hope ,,,thanks for the vid
A brilliant video! I loved travelling on Leopards when I was young and loved driving them later on.
They were reliable and very economical. TMS407X which still exists and BSJ931T were brilliant machines.
I loved the bark of the exhaust and used to set off car alarms with BSJ!
I cut my teeth on Leyland vehicles and passed my test on a Leyland PD3 decker too.
Glad you enjoyed it Alistair :)
TMS was for a short time in the south of England. I drove her several times. Loved it, every time. She could echo off the walls and ser off cae alarms as well.
@@davidoldfield4921 TMS407X was on Ebay last year. She had no seats and had been a mobile tattoo parlour with a weird paint job. I was tempted, but the wife would have killed me! She was back in Ayrshire.
@@alistairshaw3206 She's had an eventful afterlife. Sadly, the owner when I drove her could not really keep her, let alone restore her, in the manner that she deserved. Too many buses have reached the Barnsley scrap yards because of time and finance on the part of otherwise enthusiastic owners.
I remember the sound of Leyland Leopards and MK2 National's with the same engine. My local bus company Stagecoach East Midlands ran a few Leyland Leopard's well into the early 2000's. They just kept going and only got rid of them as newer buses at the time replaced them and they didn't last as long.
ROI 141, New to Ulsterbus in 1979, was still going strong to the end in 2006
Leyland Leopards & Tigers & Bristol RE's were The Work of Horse of City Bus & Ulsterbus in Northern Ireland for Year's Also Ulsterbus Tours Used a Lot of Leyland Tiger Contour Coaches in 80's & 90's
Only bus tour I never done from open weekend but I remember those when I was a kid when used to run around Ayrshire along with AA & A1 buses
Childhood memories of Midland Bluebird coach trips
The leopards in Manchester were plaxton bodied, they could move. It was always a surprise to get on one. Much prefer these than the new
I know what you mean - a bit more character.
A real bus listen to the grunt from that beautiful Leyland 680 pity it's a semi automatic better with a crash box that sorted the men from the boys same as the Eaton twin splitter in the ERF anda lot of other trucks both excellent engineered boxes
I can smell this video.
LOL
NIce to hear the crackle from the exhaust, which in the latter days of Leopards in Glasgow in the 1990s was sometimes louder than engine and transmission combined. Transmission (or is it a belt?) on this is making a horrible stuttering squeal.
Yeah you definitely hear them
When I was at secondary school, about 15 years ago, they gave us wan o these buses if we didnae behave. It was that noisy we couldnae hear oorself makin a racket. Ma grandpa used to drive them for a living in Ayr back in the 70s/80s.
LOL......
Every area depot should have one of these old buses. I hope that they can keep hold of it for as long as possible.
But I do recognise that come the 2030s they will obviously have to be taken off the roads in accordance with the government plans to tackle Climate Change.
Yeah climate change targets is going to be an issue for these old vehicles that's for sure.
that transmission is too noisy.needs a strip down before failure happens,i remember new ones and they were not like this one
It's not a new one though
This must be the worst drive I’ve ever seen of a semi automatic gearbox
Terrible downchange. No rev in neutral. Gearbox won’t last long like that.
Care to elaborate why a rev in neutral is required
@@brianmelrose-fp8fu like a crash box a semi automatic needs to have matching revs before change down to prevent the gears banding and ruining the gearbox.